Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Video: Ani Difranco Rethinks The Lord's Prayer
This past Sunday our youth group began a long-term study of the Lord's prayer. In my background research, I came across this interesting rethinking of that prayer by Ani Difranco:
Our father who art in a penthouse
Sits in his 37th floor suite
And swivels to gaze down
At the city he made me in
He allows me to stand and
Sollicit graffiti until
He needs the land I stand on
Here are some thoughts on the meaning of the words. What do you think?
HT: Cobus Van Wyngaard.
1 comments:
Love her work. Was reading the poem this morning again. It spoke to our situation in South Africa, and I like reading it together with the Lord's Prayer.
But from our context in Africa, I wonder about the threat of rising up in the end. I missed the perspective (which I think is quite Biblical) that the Penthouse would be destroyed, would no longer exist, since "Jesus Christ is Lord", and not the Lord's of this world, which the threat of "coming up" leaves open ended. What happens after the "comming up"? Is it a takeover of the penthouse, or the end of the penthouse?
But I love Ani DiFranco! One day I'm going to preach in dialogue with "I love my country".
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